Vincent Untz, Centreon
Vincent bootstrapped his career thanks to his passion for open source more than 20 years ago: heavily involved in all aspects of the GNOME project, he was recruited by SUSE to keep working on what he loved. He later became involved in openSUSE and in OpenStack. His involvement in the community covered all kind of roles in various projects: contributor, reviewer, maintainer, release manager, director of a Foundation, chairman, and more! Today, Vincent is happy to mix his interests in open source, technology, people and strategy on a daily basis thanks to his role of CTO at Centreon.
Session
Collaboration is a key value of open source communities, but we all know of stories where projects were forked, generally as a consequence of deep disagreements within the group of contributors. And that is totally fine: forks are part of our history, and we have greatly benefited from them. Still, we tend to think of forks in a negative way because we associate them with conflicts.
Let’s look at a case where a fork is actually welcome by all parties, and it is done in a friendly way. Yes, sometimes, a fork is what everyone is asking for!